Policy Handbook on:
How to strategically use the EU support programmes,
including Structural Funds, to foster the potential of
culture for local, regional and national development and
the spill-over effects on the wider economy?
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Conducted by the Working Group of EU Member States Experts (Open Method of Coordination) on Cultural and Creative Industries European Agenda for Culture, Work Plan for Culture 2011-2014 Commissioned by the European Union, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, April 2012 Download (English) |
Description
The cultural and creative industries promote sustainable growth in all European regions and cities and thus contribute to the Europe 2020 strategy. While some EU regions are already using this potential in order to promote socio-economic development - also and above all through the instruments of EU structural policy - others have not yet made much of this potentialThese strategy guidelines were drawn up by experts from the EU member states in the context of the open method of coordination (OMC), amongst them Veronika Ratzenböck, Director of the kulturdokumentation.They show how the EU Structural Funds can be used to promote the cultural and creative industries at local, regional and national levels. They show how the link between the cultural and creative industries and other sectors can create spill-over effects on increased innovation, tourism and rural and urban development. The guidelines provide important findings for the coming support period, 2014-2020, which have to be considered in the formulation of the new EU structural-fund programmes with regard to the potential of the arts, culture and the creative industries.